- For years Razer dominated a high-end gaming scene
with the Razer Blade 14 inch laptop,
but it was those bezels that just drove so many of us nuts.
Luckily today, they're announcing their brand new
Razer Blade and it's not even
a 14 inch anymore, it's a 15.6 inch.
Today we're going to give you a tour
and show you what's new, you don't want to miss this.
Stay tuned.
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First up is going to be the display,
so instead of 14 inches, it is now 15.6 inches
but they are keeping the overall chassis size the same.
It is slightly wider but overall
it's gonna be the same as your previous Razer Blade,
you're just getting way more screen real estate.
That's because you get 4.9 millimeter thin bezels
on the side which look stunning in person.
It's also very well balanced on the top and bottom
and you're still going to get a normal
front-facing camera at the top.
Now you do get three display options
including full HD at 60 hertz, that is not on touch.
You also get full HD at 144 hertz, that's also not on touch
but that's the sweet spot for gamers,
will give you the maximum framerate for your gaming.
You're also going to a get a 4K 60 hertz option,
that does have touch and it's made for video professionals
and photo professionals who need
a high quality display and at 4K.
Sure you can game with it,
but you will sacrifice framerates.
Now the good news about these displays,
they're all factory-calibrated for the first time.
They should all reach 100% SRGB and look very bright,
we'll have to wait til we get our hands on 'em
but so far they look like winners from our end.
Turning to the processor, we are looking
at an Intel 8th generation Core i7-8750H.
That is a six core processor with 12 threads
and up to 4.1 gigahertz of performance.
That's all balanced by vapor chamber technology for cooling,
some custom design solutions here from Razer.
It makes the device a little bit heavier
but it allows them to really push that processor
so don't expect a lot of throttling here,
and that goes double for the video cards
which you get two options including NVIDIA Max-Q GTX 1060
at six gigabytes of video memory
or the Max-Q GTX 1070 with eight gigabytes of video memory.
Now for those who don't like Max-Q
because they tend to throttle the speeds,
don't worry, Razer will let you control that
through the Synapse software so you're going to get
the best of both worlds, you get the smaller design
of Max-Q but you should get the performance
of a standard GTX card as well.
Now when it comes to expandability,
most companies are bucking the trend
and putting on soldered memory, not Razer.
They're going to give you 16 gigabytes out of the box,
DDR-4 RAM, excellent but you get two DIMM slots,
you can expand that up to 32 gigabytes if you want.
You also get up to 512 gigabytes SSD, that is PCI memory,
but you can put it up to 2 terabyte
yourself if you want to as well.
Now for wireless, they are ditching Killer and instead going
with Intel Wireless-AC 9260 so that's a big change.
They keyboard is basically the same
but they did revamp the way the keys actuate
and it feels really good, you're still going to get
Chromewell lighting, those secondary keys though still
don't light up so they have not changed that yet.
When it comes to that trackpad,
you're going to get a giant precision trackpad.
I'm very excited about this.
Razer's continuing the trend of adopting
precision drivers and it works very well here.
For battery life, you're going to get 80 watt hours
which should give you between four and six hours
of performance depending on the display you pick
and whether or not you're gaming.
We'll have to take a closer look at that but don't
expect this to go all day like a traditional office laptop,
this is still gaming at its core,
but 80 watt hours should go a long way.
You still also get two top-firing speakers
on the deck, Dolby ATMOS so we're expecting
excellent audio from this device as well.
Now when it comes to ports, you get a few options.
You're going to get USB Type-C, Thunderbolt 3 of course
so you can use this with an external GPU.
You still get USB 3.1 Type-A port,
also known as I call it the legacy port,
and three and a half millimeter headset jack
plus full HDMI but in a twist for 2018,
Razer's putting back in a mini DisplayPort
as a response to gamers who want more options
for connecting up external displays,
so plenty of port options as well.
All this comes in a brand new chassis
that's redesigned for 2018, gone are the curved edges.
Instead it's squared off, looks really good.
Still CNC machined aluminum, solid device,
should be between four and four and a half pounds
so it's not light for a 15.6 inch laptop,
it's pretty compact in size and thinness.
Should be really good in your bag.
Now pricing and availability, well you can get it today,
you can order it at Razer.com/Blade.
Pricing starts at $1,899 for the entry level
but goes up to $2,899 for the 1070 4K 16 gigabytes
and 512 gigabyte of storage option.
So as usual, Razer's quite expensive
but for many gamers, it's still worth it.
So there's our quick preview of the brand new
Razer Blade, now we will do a full review of this device.
They're being made as we speak
so we'll have to wait a couple weeks
but if you have any questions about it,
leave 'em below and we'll try to answer 'em in that review.
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